Group of former hospitality industry managers to serve as owner-operators, company official says

2:45 AM,
Oct. 2, 2012

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A group of former hospitality industry managers hopes to bring their experience to a mainstay Wisconsin Rapids hotel.

Hotel Mead, 451 E. Grand Ave., was sold to SKD Hospitality Management, effective Monday, said Al DeBerry of Flower Mound, Texas, executive vice president and chief operating officer for the newly formed company.

"We could not be any more excited to be a part of Wisconsin Rapids and to own this hotel," DeBerry said in a Daily Tribune interview. "We view this as a historic landmark and very much part of the fabric of this community." ...